violence continues in egypt with street marchers defying president morsi as curfew as the country's opposition refuses the government's offer for talks. president obama turns to wall enforcement officers for support of his gun control legislation but many believe in the second amendment the right to bear arms should still take precedence. and british citizens feel the of facts of the government's austerity measures which are causing an increasing number of people to end up homeless.

live from our studios in moscow you're watching are with me and he said now it's good to have you with us straight to our top story this hour and thousands of anti-government protesters in egypt are ignoring president morsi curfew by taking to the streets across the country some demonstrators imports i.e.d. attacks police stations while those in suez march towards a government buildings and the opposition has meanwhile refused to enter talks with the president who earlier implemented a state of emergency in the areas most affected by on brassed the government also approved along giving the military the power to arrest citizens the ongoing violence has now claimed at least fifty two lives since it broke out on friday well true who was in the at the center of the action in cairo reports for our team. i think if i succeed in policing by. force i was five

thousand you see because i was. i. knew that this sense was going to be keeping a secret. society says that he said he didn't have t.v.'s friends foresight. to. tell you this once and for three instead of pushing for a national salvation government a. foreign company i. see so right you know you place on your office ah i see the rest systems that have been fighting things. way out me to this because the government protesters and security continued for he said i stayed away from the first i just see gas i wasn't going to run and i

always began to fight from the point of the fight so protesters coming up from behind. the trees i personally witnessed by protesters amenities a sense of security forces struck from the police during the three of the fences as well as the police i detained a senior writing a police officer this is a pretty great sense of the screen the security forces on the protesters by the streets and see. well the egyptian government is struggling to find a peaceful resolution to this ongoing crisis after its offer was tough talks i should say was shunned by the major opposition parties dr saeed said dick political sociologist at the american university in cairo says there is little immediate prospect of the situation stabilizing. the experience of the logan was a president what what was called the national dialogue has been

a failure and so they don't want to give the president. any piece of a photo opportunity that they are all sitting and nothing happens there were many experiences in which opposition would say it was the government and the president and they agree on something and then after a while you'll find that there was no agreement and that is why the decided not to join also they feel that the president and the government the current government is in top end and so they don't want to give it any lease of life any support so that the government becomes strong again so the future this is a time to persia talk as far as we can tell that we are egypt is going to be on syrian for some time before all parties realize that the cost of keeping this conflict is going to be too damaging for everybody once you all we allies nobody is going to be and we know if this conflict continues then we will have

democracy but as long as everybody some people believe that we will be winning if we keep perjuring and decision of the government and the government believes that if they keep persia in the opposition they would be winning there would be no stability in the country. president obama is turning to law enforcement officials from cities scared by recent mass shootings for support of his gun control policy obama wants police chiefs and country county i should say sheriffs to back his plans to curb gun violence including a ban on assault weapons but they do has divided the nation with many pointing to their constitutional right to bear arms or he's going to camp reports. white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are amendments that there are a right arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment meet heated national

debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which wants to abrogate the constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on

something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about feisal no. no no i'm sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our. taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people did have opinions on gun control. guns were pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution maybe sacred to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the

deal is pass these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans support some regulation on guns god is dizziness believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress so he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would

not be infringing on the people's rights as nasty as it gets sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that huge debate when other liberties were at stake. in washington i'm going to check out. still ahead the syrian opposition seeks more aid the coalition wants promised funds and political support from their western backers with friends warning extremists could infiltrate power if the help isn't forthcoming. and trying to over terrorism numerous issues are to be examined during pretrial hearings at guantanamo bay including cia secret prisons that's coming up after a break. choose your language. killing a kid with zero in federal custody still someone to. choose good consensus

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here with r.t. live from moscow good to have you with us president francois alond has held france's military intervention in mali as of success french troops have aided the malayan army in making big advances against islamist insurgents but the victory may not be as clear as it seems artist tom barton is joining us now to take us through this campaign so far tom how has the campaign unfolded take us through that it's been two and a half weeks are they facing serious resistance well no it doesn't seem that they are particularly the french advance has has rolled up from about the middle of mali and swept up towards timbuktu around here which is just fall and they face very little resistance really there has been some civilian casualties unfortunately some

of the some of those strikes killing civilians on the advance on the way up but the advance has been very rapid and it seems that most of these islamic militants have simply been falling back rather than trying to stand and fight so we've got up to timbuktu here there's only a few towns left extatic so. scenes in the towns that have been liberated crowds running up to thank the french troops but now we also see the involvement of some of the from other powers there's a west african force some thousands of troops about to come in to take over some of the garrison work in preparation for taking over from those french troops and we also see from brussels overtures of an e.u. force coming to train and other troops and also the u.k. saying that they can send a considerable force also not to be directly involved in combat but for training

more local forces come under stand the u.s. is also already involved told more about that they are indeed they've they've so far been supplying transport planes to the french efforts to help them and some are fueling planes as well it now seems that they've gone a bit further than that they're currently the u.s. is currently engaged with their next door with negotiations looking at trying to create a drone base there c.d.'s the drones close to the border with mali and they may possibly want to use all of those drones to try and to try to aid in what is expected to become a guerrilla war now in the deserts in northern mali as these islamic militants have retreated there rather than stand and fight is that as far as it's expected to spread. it's possibly not the moment it seems that this is this is the case

the u.s. has also moved to a possible base in brooklyn or also in the south and also if we go on to nigeria itself to the south of. the french have just announced today that they have asked their citizens there to evacuate from due to threats from islamic militants to take revenge for them for for this intervention in mali one man has already been kidnapped there are some large companies they're removing their staff from from vulnerable areas it is worth noting that it's very rich in natural resources gold oil uranium and among its chief exports they go to the u.s. and to france so there is some people already saying possibly this is part of a bid to try and protect their natural resources but also i think we will see after this main military operation which is getting towards its end now we could see the

spread of fighting into into other areas right artie's tom byron bring us up to date on the french campaign in mali thanks for that tom well as the british government continues with public sector spending cuts in a battle with financial woes it appears the reality of austerity is starting to bite the number of homeless people in the u.k. is dramatically increasing passing fifty thousand across the country are just probably boyko met some of those force just sleep rough. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to trial and no money in your pocket this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bamiyan the case capital for homelessness. remember right. there she said drop grandma don't have one. but you have one i mean you shouldn't

be home routers a lot of people who called me a short time wondered me real rock carpark were people really. all over the place this is why i got cash there yeah yeah you read you are here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw drug. store and the coldness is stupid specialist told me we had to go back for four days in the country it's twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a bombing in hostile it's run by

a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the don't know like having no job or running from the moment trying to get it's time you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you got to do whatever it takes to find some let's think find money. help and support scariest thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presenting this homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent more for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before

the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham that a lot of people that don't have working been given i suppose with it being such a one time in industrialised center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breeding for the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper i mean the population's expanding the housing stock ease and innate reach that point where it's true spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t m. the syrian opposition is seeking more financial aid from its western backers with the

coalition and yet to form a provisional government this is france warns that the islamist extremists could fall into fall into power if promised funds and political support from the west failed to materialize but the conflict nearly two years old r t one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him what he thinks is needed to bring peace to syria. we need this some new weapons against airplanes you know because bashar assad says . airplanes today made villages and cities and their civilians we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more than sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something unbelievable it's a lot right so to help syrian people in to help and syrian crisis you need weapons

and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need political support also who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are not afraid you know because of the majority of fight terror groups in syria is not extremist is not dearest only fighting for freedom and dignity and what a loss or group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy is why they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway the are just a small part of their evolution is you. but these people are recognized even by french president as it's three missiles and terrorists all over the you can find extremists but they're not their ear picture only

a small part of it please record denies that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that. so the opposition remain adamant extremists make up only a small fraction of the armed rebels and will be easy to control but historian joe horn disagrees. we are reassured by your guest that if the if the dissidents come to power they'll be able to handle elements for fraud but there will be an dissidents at the same play when they work with nato in two thousand and eleven and toppling colonel gadhafi now they are seeking to do the same thing in syria which suggests that they have nothing to learn even the most recent lessons of history now we see that in been ghazi which was the cradle of the polls against gadhafi the north atlantic countries have asked their nationals to sleep in ghazi because resume impending terrorist attacks watched by those they

just helped into power so i think we should take it with a grain of salt what your guest said in that interview there putting civilians in harm's way by watching attacks from crowded urban communities i was also struck by the fact that your guest said that he would not be involved in any negotiation with the assad regime the way wars in is that she would go she ate with those who are shooting at you and that is how this war should end but if they refused to negotiate that tends to suggest that this conflict will continue indefinitely. and online for you right now exactly who's following you on twitter the website releases a billboard showing a frightening increase in requests for user data by the u.s. government and igniting serious concerns over privacy more on that for you at r t dot com. also online birth control or border control

israel pushes forward a new way of controlling immigration injecting foreign women of jewish descent with contraceptive drugs find out the details on our website. five defendants are facing trial over the nine eleven attacks in a war crimes tribunal at the guantanamo bay u.s. naval base the pretrial hearings which kicked off on monday are intended to resolve dozens of legal issues among those on trial is college she one hammad the alleged mastermind of the attacks that killed nearly three thousand people four others are accused of training and aiding the hijackers the defendants have been in u.s. custody for a decade now in two thousand and six president george w. bush and now it's they were among captives sent to guantanamo from secret overseas prisons defense lawyers have asked the judge to order the u.s. government to release documents regarding the cia's allege of role in moving suspects across international borders well antiwar activists are flounders says the

cia is using secret prisons outside the country to escape human rights laws. the reason for their existence is it's part of the u.s. war on terror which is using systematic terror against thousands of innocent people the u.n. report said twenty seven thousand prisoners had been held by the us in secret prisons of course in afghanistan and iraq but country so out the middle east countries throughout europe and africa. on more than seventeen u.s. ships were secret prisons so this is really part of a vast scale of thousands of people being held without salute lee no rights whatsoever and being subject to horrendous torture originally the u.s. claim they could hold prisoners outside the u.s. because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions and to

international law and humanitarian law which in their twisted thinking they said existed only within the u.s. so the idea of holding prisoners around the world in secret detention was they were there for again according to this twisted logic and new to any international law human rights law or conventions that the u.s. had signed. twenty people have reportedly been killed in a plane crash in kazakhstan the plane carrying five crew and fifteen passengers included a child and went down near the city of to in the country south after one pm local time reports say there are no survivors the challenger two hundred operated by a cause that company's got was performing an internal flight and crashed while trying to land in harsh weather conditions the company says it will reveal the cause of the crash after flight recorders are recovered rescuers and investigators are working at the scene.

let's take a look now at some other stories from around the globe a suicide bomber has targeted the central palace in the somalian capital mogadishu two people are confirmed dead although some reports say up to six may have been killed the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stopped by guards the president was out of the country when the attack occurred. following the deadly fire in a brazil like club which killed more than two hundred thirty people police have arrested the club's owners and members of the band who were performing at the time the blaze broke out a firework lit by the band allegedly started the fire when it hit insulation foam in the ceiling witnesses say the flames swept through the packs banging in a flash many victims died of smoke inhalation or were crossed as the panicking crown stampeded to the only exit which reports claim security guards attempted to

keep closed. in a few minutes join our team for a gold rush to the most remote and almost inaccessible parts of the colombian jungle. reparable the fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loopy was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more

like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

gouveia in northern colombia. beneath these rusty sheds the country's richest gold mine it's operated by canadian multinational corporation gran colombia gold. today the army has taken over the sector for a high risk mission. transporting the week's production to a safe location. three gold.